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Eat New York: Top Tips

After notching up three trips to New York in as many years I have been lucky enough to have never had a bad meal (except just one sorry jet-lagged influenced occasion at a Sheraton Hotel in-house restaurant).

My wife Carolina is my de-facto tour planner, her day job is spent organising and executing events so she qualifies for this job and more some.

She also happens to love good food and trying new things, a trait that has been infectious and has stopped me from eating at Delis, street vendors or the hundreds of “Italian American” restaurants.

With friends that have or currently live in New York recommending masses of cafes and restaurants, we have produced and adapted our own New York guide, a Bible if you will.

Having stayed in Chelsea, Soho and Bowery, the latter two being slightly further down in Lower Manhattan on the Lower East and Lower West side, the majority of these suggestions are based there and all are at most a short taxi journey away.